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14 Feb 2022
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Impact of urbanization on the thermal environment of the Chengdu–Chongqing urban agglomeration under complex terrain
Si Chen
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Jinbo Xie
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Bin Liu
School of Software Engineering, Chengdu University of Information
Technology, Chengdu 610225, China
Binghao Jia
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Peihua Qin
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Longhuan Wang
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Ruichao Li
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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This study discusses the changes in the summer thermal environment in the Chengdu–Chongqing urban agglomeration due to urban expansion in complex terrain conditions in the recent 40 years, using high-resolution simulations with the WRF model. We quantify the influence of a single urban expansion factor and a single complex terrain factor on the urban thermal environment. Under the joint influence of complex terrain and urban expansion, the heat island effect caused by urbanization was enhanced.
This study discusses the changes in the summer thermal environment in the Chengdu–Chongqing...
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